Divine Mercy

Does Jesus Love You Just the Way You Are?

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Does Jesus Love You Just the Way You Are? No. Against such absurd claims, only sharp replies will do. Like ice water splashed onto the face of a hallucinating man, the sharp reply brings a man back to his senses. Indeed, such ubiquitous sloganeering is built upon decades of theological dissent, very much the way … Read more

I facilitated 22,000 abortions, but God forgave me

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The mercy of God can be unfathomable to comprehend. How is it that Jesus loves us so much when we have been so offensive to Him, even after we try again and again not to sin? It’s something that I have learned to accept with a humble heart, leaning into the mystery of the love … Read more

Sin and Repentance – Fulton Sheen

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Strong passions are the precious raw material of sanctity. Individuals who have carried their sinning to extremes should not despair or say, ‘I am too great a sinner to change,’ or ‘God would not want me.’ God will take anyone who is willing to love, not with an occasional gesture, but with a ‘passionless passion,’ … Read more

Set little store on what people say.

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My daughter, faithfully live up to the words which I speak to you. Do not value any external thing too highly, even if it were to seem very precious to you. Let go of yourself, and abide with Me continually. Entrust everything to Me and do nothing on your own, and you will always have … Read more

Hanging onto the past is a lack of trust in God’s mercy

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Hanging onto the past is a lack of trust in God’s mercy and a preoccupation with self – the opposite of humility. Patti Maguire Armstrong, Holy Hacks Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to God’s love, and the future to God’s providence. St. Augustine Litany of Trust Related PostsPut Not Your Trust in … Read more

Our Time of Damaged Thought

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  Hope in Mercy with Fr. Michael Gaitley   Maurice Berger, the French child psychologist, psychoanalyst, and professor at the National School of Magistrates, has spent some four decades working with violent and delinquent children and adolescents in institutions like the Centre éducatif fermé. Since the early 1990s he has warned of a steady increase … Read more